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dgentry@vlsi4.racal.com (Dave Gentry) wrote:
>kermit@infi.net (Kermit Woodall) wrote:
>
>>: >: Any news on the Snappy driver for Amiga mentioned/proposed here? 
>>: >We've tried getting Play, Inc. to work with us, but so far we haven't gotten
>>: >any cooperation.  We continue to work towards this though, as a Snappy
>>: >module for ImageFX would be a cool thing.
>>: 
>>: What do you think their problem is?  Do they snub their noses at those
>>: of us who originally made them rich buying their stuff when they were
>>: called Digital Creations and Newtek?
>>: 
>>I'm not sure there is a "problem" as such.  It might simply be that they
>>never thought of someone needing to bang directly on the hardware and it's
>>hard for them to pull together on getting us what we need to know.  It
>>might also be that I've yet to talk with the right people.
>
>This is a parallel port peripheral, right?  Doesn't the PC port have
>more data lines than the Amiga?  I mean, I know that printers work the
>same, but the parallel version of the Zip drive won't apparently work
>with the Amiga because of this.  I guess you guys have checked on this
>already, right?

Won`t the EPP bi-directional parallel port in the Walker fix this problem?

>
>Also, do you think you might release it as a standalone driver like
>Endicor does with its Epson printer drivers?  Oh, BTW, congratulations
>on the purchase of Aladdin 4D.